By Jason Ditz
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has issued its quarterly report on Iran’s civilian nuclear program, and like clockwork media outlets responded with hysterical speculation about Iranian nuclear weapons despite this report being not materially dissimilar from recent quarterly reports.
More relevant to the fear about Iran is that in January the CIA noted that there is no evidence Iran has decided to even attempt to build a nuclear weapon. Moreover, just a few weeks ago President Trump dismissed the idea of attacking Iran, saying he doesn’t believe that Iran wants a nuclear weapon. The vast majority of media coverage of the new IAEA report doesn’t mention any of this, and just speculates about what Iran might conceivably do